>>714316212
Well the next thing CCP, USA, and the rest are focused on now is unironic bolt rifles. That is to say, portable, lightweight, sturdy magazine-fed grenade launchers and airburst and shrapnel rounds. Drone-killer Drones. AI-aiming on special anti-drone turrets because Humans can't react to them for shit most of the time from within fast-moving vehicles. Recent studies have shown, if you hear a drone, it's too late already. If you can see it before you hear it, flip coins unless you have smoke nades and coverage.
Smokescreen is now the defacto equivalent to the medieval shield.
Grouping specific chemical smoke with optical equipment that can see through it is also one of the methods.
All of the above will naturally cost an absolute shitload.
However military economics still rules in spite of the above, especially with glide bombs and various cheaper drone developments, so Ukraine demanded a focus on even more mass produced cheaper weapons than quality as of a report from their ministry and military intelligence a month or two ago.
It's a frankenstein mish-mash of modern warfare and WW1.
Shit, even converting ballistic missiles and cruise missiles into quasi-drones is on the plate now.
